Comedian Tom Green Heads Back To TV

From public television in Canada to MTV, his living room to his new set at AXS TV, Tom Green has made an impressive career of subverting talk show conventions in a manner befitting his absurd humor, which has he honed in recent years on the standup circuit.

Green is like a Letterman for Generation X — able to call attention to the absurdity of the talk show idiom while still doing a good talk show. In fact, he has guest hosted for Letterman in addition to two shows for MTV and Tom Green’s House Tonight, filmed right in his living room. He has also appeared in films like Freddy Got Fingered, Road Trip, Charlie’s Angels, and several television shows, hosted a podcast and blogged for the Huffington Post.

Green’s new show, which places a premium on the one-on-one interview, is called Tom Green Live, and it airs Thursdays at 9 on AXS TV.

WAMC's Ian Pickus catches up with comedian, author and actor Jim Breuer, a Saturday Night Live alum famed for his role in cult film Half Baked. Breuer brings his Heavy Metal Family Fan tour to Upstate Concert Hall (formerly Northern Lights) in Clifton Park, New York on June 9.

Comedian Bill Cosby is at a point in his career where virtually every new standup star counts him as a major influence – but Cosby himself has shown no signs of slowing down.

His prolific career has covered beloved records, TV, movies, books, and even a new app.

Cosby’s role on I Spy made him the first African-American to co-star in a dramatic series, breaking television’s racial barrier and winning three Emmy Awards. In the 1980s, he again rocked the television world with the The Cosby Show, which single-handedly revived the family sitcom and rescued NBC.

Cosby has been honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the Kennedy Center Honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award.

On Oct. 13, he will headline the Mahaiwe’s annual gala in Great Barrington, Mass.